The report continues with the news that all that is left is to agree a fee with Juventus. While the Italians don’t want to lose their star man the accepted wisdom on this one is that they will reluctantly agree to any fee north of £100m up front.

Manchester United are said to have offered £85m up front in their initial bid with another £14-15m potentially being added with performance related bonuses.

But Juve are holding out for more and if Manchester United are prepared to pay £85m then another £15m shouldn’t provide too many problems.

There is a dearth of truly top, A-list and available talent around right now and Pogba falls into that category. At 23 he still has room for improvement but already tramples most of the opposition with his cavalier style that is also tinged with genuine technical excellence.

TFF are expecting this one to come to a head over the next few days and believe that Paul Pogba will be a Manchester United player by this time next week.